Members of the Board and Profiles

MEMBERS OF THE BOARD

FROM LEFT

Front row : Mr NG Shui-lai, Mr Quinn LAW Yee-kwan (Managing Director), Mr Barry CHEUNG Chun-yuen (Chairman),

Mr Walter CHAN Kar-lok, The Honourable IP Kwok-him

Middle row : Mr Victor CHAN Hin-fu, Dr John WONG Yee-him, Mr Daniel LAM Chun, Ms Annie TAM Kam-lan,

The Honourable Tanya CHAN, Professor HO Pui-yin, Ms Iris TAM Siu-ying (Executive Director), Mr AU Choi-kai

Dr Isaac NG Ka-chui

Back row : Mr Douglas YOUNG Chi-chiu, Mr Almon POON Chin-hung, Mr Philip KAN Siu-lun

The Honourable WONG Kwok-kin, The Honourable James TO Kun-sun, Professor Desmond HUI Cheuk-kuen

Mr Jimmy LEUNG Cheuk-fai, Mr Calvin LAM Che-leung (Executive Director), Mr Philip LIAO Yi-kang

Members not in the group photo : Mrs Pamela TAN Kam Mi-wah, Mr Peter TO

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Chairman : Mr Barry CHEUNG Chun-yuen, GBS, JP

Managing Director : Mr Quinn LAW Yee-kwan, JP

Executive Directors : Ir Calvin LAM Che-leung

Ms Iris TAM Siu-ying, JP

Non-Executive Directors : Mr Victor CHAN Hin-fu

( non-official ) Mr Walter CHAN Kar-lok, SBS, JP The Honourable Tanya CHAN

Mr Francis CHAU Yin-ming, MH (up to 30 April 2010) Professor HO Pui-yin Professor Desmond HUI Cheuk-kuen

The Honourable IP Kwok-him, GBS, JP Mr Philip KAN Siu-lun

Mr Daniel LAM Chun, BBS, JP

Mr Philip LIAO Yi-kang (from 1 May 2010) Dr Isaac NG Ka-chui

Ms Agnes NG Ka-yin (up to 30 April 2010)

Mr NG Shui-lai, BBS, MBE, JP

Mr Almon POON Chin-hung, JP The Honourable James TO Kun-sun Mr Peter TO

The Honourable WONG Kwok-kin, BBS Dr John WONG Yee-him

Mr Douglas YOUNG Chi-chiu (from 1 May 2010)

Non-Executive Directors : Mr AU Choi-kai, JP Director of Buildings

( official ) Mrs Pamela TAN Kam Mi-wah, JP Director of Home Affairs

Ms Annie TAM Kam-lan, JP Director of Lands

Mrs Ava NG Tse Suk-ying, JP Director of Planning (up to 27 June 2010)

Mr Jimmy LEUNG Cheuk-fai, JP Director of Planning (from 28 June 2010)

67 Chairman Managing Director Mr Barry CHEUNG Chun-yuen, GBS, JP Mr Quinn LAW Yee-kwan, JP Mr Cheung, Chairman of Hong Kong Mercantile Since 1 March 2008, Mr Law has been holding the Exchange, has been Chairman of the URA since 2007 and position of Managing Director of the Urban Renewal a board member since 2001. He is currently Chairman of Authority. He is also the Deputy Chairman of the Board. the Standing Committee on Disciplined Services Salaries He served as an Executive Director of the Authority from and Conditions of Service, an Alternate Chairman of November 2005 to February 2008. the Pay Trend Survey Committee, a member of the Mr Law is a Certified Public Accountant in Hong Kong. Commission on Strategic Development and a member He has been serving on a committee in the Hong Kong of the Standing Commission on Civil Service Salaries and Institute of Certified Public Accountants, a member of Conditions of Service. He is also an independent non- the Advisory Board of Accounting Studies of the Chinese executive director of United Company RUSAL. University of Hong Kong, a Court member of the Hong Mr Cheung was a former Chairman of the Corruption Kong University of Science and Technology and Vice Prevention Advisory Committee of the ICAC. He was a full- President and Director of the Association of Hong Kong time member of the Central Policy Unit on secondment Professionals. Mr Law is also a Chartered Secretary. from McKinsey & Company. He was a consultant with He completed his professional training with a Big-Four McKinsey & Company in the United States and Asia. accounting firm and was qualified in 1977; and joined a Mr Cheung received a Bachelor of Science degree with listed group (a constituent stock in Hang Seng main index) First Class Honours in Mathematics and Computer in 1983 after working for the then Securities Commission Science from the University of Sussex and an MBA from in Hong Kong and two international shipping companies. the Harvard Business School. Prior to joining the Authority, Mr Law had overseen different areas of operation in a variety of businesses and industries including property investment and development: corporate and operation management, strategic and business planning, finance and administration, corporate services, investor relation, statutory and internal audit.

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Non-Executive Directors (non-official) The Honourable Tanya CHAN Mr Victor CHAN Hin-fu The Hon Tanya Chan is a member of the Legislative Council (Hong Kong Island) and an elected District Mr Chan joined the MTR Corporation in 1992 as the Councillor of the Central and Western District (the General Manager – Property Development. He was Peak). She is also a Non-Executive Director of the Urban responsible for the development of properties above Renewal Authority, a director of the Hong Kong Mortgage and adjacent to railway stations and depots. He led a Corporation Limited and a member of the Advisory multi-disciplinary team of managers involved in the Committee on Travel Agents. planning and tendering of large-scale joint venture property developments. Mr Chan was also involved in the marketing, sales and letting of completed units in these Professor HO Pui-yin developments. Since 2011, Mr Chan has been appointed as the General Manager – Guangdong & Shenzhen Professor Ho is a social and economic historian Property of the Corporation. Prior to joining the MTR, he who previously worked as a research consultant at held a directorate post in the Lands Department. Mr Chan the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and qualified in 1976 as a chartered surveyor in Hong Kong Development (OECD) in Paris. She is professor of the and since 2004 also qualified as a member of the China Department of History at the Chinese University of Hong Institute of Real Estate Appraisers. Mr Chan is currently a Kong. She authors numerous books and articles on Hong Supervisory Board Member of the Hong Kong Housing Kong and social and economic history of modern China. Society as well as the Property Advisory Committee Her current researches are mainly on the urbanisation of Member of the Salvation Army. modern-day Hong Kong. Concurrently, she is Director of Lee Woo Sing Hong Kong History Resource Centre of Shaw College of the , SBS, JP Mr Walter CHAN Kar-lok Chinese University of Hong Kong and Member of the Mr Chan has been a practising lawyer for nearly 30 years Board of Trustees of the same College; Member of the and is a senior partner of Rowland Chow, Chan & Co., Antiquities Advisory Board; Member of the Hong Kong Solicitors. He is also a China-Appointed Attesting Officer. War Memorial Pensions Advisory Committee of the Labour and Welfare Bureau; Museum Expert Adviser and Mr Chan was previously a member of the Housing Member of the History Museum Advisory Panel of the Authority for 10 years (up to March 2006) and served as Leisure and Cultural Services Department; Expert Adviser Chairman of Home Ownership Committee, Commercial of the Legislative Council Library; and Visiting Professor Property Committee and Supervisory of Divestment Chaire Dupront of Université Paris-Sorbonne. Committee (Linkreit) consecutively. At present, he is a member of the Town Planning Board, Appeal Tribunal (Buildings) and Education Commission.

For social service, Mr Chan is a Council Member of the Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups, Director of Oxfam Hong Kong and also a member of the Executive Committee of Hong Kong Housing Society. He is also an honorary legal advisor of a number of organisations.

69 Professor Desmond HUI Cheuk-kuen Kong SAR representing the district council functional constituency between 2000 and 2004 and an elected Desmond Hui is Associate Dean of Arts Faculty, Professor member of the Central and Western District Council and Head of Cultural Studies in the Department of Cultural between 1992 and 2003. and Religious Studies, Director of the Centre for Culture and Development, Fellow and Warden of SH Ho College, Associate Director of the Research Institute of Humanities Mr Philip KAN Siu-lun at the Chinese University of Hong Kong; Honorary Chair Mr Kan, Partner and CEO of a private equity fund, also Professor at the China University of Technology, Taiwan. serves as Member of Antiquities Advisory Board, Member He obtained Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell of the Board of Trustees of Lord Wilson Heritage Trust University; Master and Doctor of Philosophy from and Member of the Investigation Panel of the Hong Kong University of Cambridge and was Director of the Centre (HK) Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He served for Cultural Policy Research at the University of Hong as Member of Chinese Temples Committee, Director of Kong. Dragon Foundation, Member of Board of Review (Inland Professor Hui is a member of the Old Wan Chai Revenue), and Member of Court of HK Baptist University. Revitalisation Initiatives Special Committee, Museum In 2000, the company which Mr. Kan co-founded was Expert Advisor of the Leisure and Cultural Services listed on the HK Stock Exchange and he served there as Department, and assessor for CreateSmart Initiative under Executive Director until 2004; he also served as Executive the Commerce and Economic Development Bureau. He Director and Independent Non-Executive Director of two was formerly a member of the Antiquities Advisory Board other public companies in HK. In recent years, he has and the Commission on Strategic Development, co-opted been involved in corporate finance and private equity member of the Advisory Committee on Revitalization businesses. Prior to that, he has served the local banking of Historic Buildings and advisor for the HK Arts industry for over 20 years. Development Council. Mr Kan holds a Diploma in Business Management (Dist) from HK Baptist University, a MBA degree from Henley The Honourable IP Kwok-him, GBS, JP Management College, UK and Fellow Membership of The Honourable Ip Kwok-him is a member of the Chartered Management Institute (FCMI), UK. He is also Legislative Council (LegCo) representing the district a Registered Investment Advisor of the Securities and council functional constituency. He is presently a deputy Futures Commission in HK. to the 11th National People’s Congress of the PRC for Hong Kong SAR, Chairman of LegCo Panel on Home Mr Daniel LAM Chun, BBS, JP Affairs, Convenor of the Legislative Council Caucus of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress Mr Lam is the Honorary Advisor of DCL Consultants of Hong Kong, member of Central & Western District Limited. He is a Chartered Building Surveyor and an Council (Kwun Lung) and Deputy Chairman of Hon Authorized Person under the Buildings Ordinance of Wah Education Organisation. He is also a member of the Hong Kong. He is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Hong Kong Housing Authority, the Governing Committee Chartered Surveyors and the Hong Kong Institute of of the Beat Drugs Fund Association and the Court of the Surveyors. Mr Lam was the President of the Hong Kong University of Hong Kong, and a non-executive director of Institute of Surveyors (1986-1987). the Management Board of the Mandatory Provident Fund Mr Lam has been elected as a Chartered Arbitrator and Schemes Authority. listed on the London Panel of Arbitrators of the Chartered The Honourable Ip had been a member of the Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators. He is also listed on similar panels in Legislative Council between 1995 and 1997, a member Hong Kong and Vancouver, and is appointed as Arbitrator of the Provisional Legislative Council between 1997 and to the China International Economic Trade Arbitration 1998, a member of the Legislative Council of the Hong Commission and the Beijing Arbitration Commission. He is a council member of the Hong Kong International 70 Members of the Board and Profiles

Arbitration Centre and Fellow and Past Chairman of the Institute of Logistics and Transport (Hong Kong Branch). Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators (1997-2000). Dr Ng is also a Corporate Member of the Chartered Institute of Housing of UK, a Fellow Member of the Hong Since 2006, Mr Lam has been appointed as Honourary Kong Institute of Real Estate, as well as a Fellow Member Professor to the Real Estate and Construction Department of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport of UK. of the University of Hong Kong.

Mr Philip LIAO Yi-kang Mr NG Shui-lai, BBS, MBE, JP Mr Ng is a part-time lecturer of the Chinese University Mr Philip Liao graduated from Cornell University (USA) of Hong Kong. He was the Vice President (President for and Eton College (UK) and has more than 20 years of Asia Pacific) of the International Federation of Social experience in the field of architecture, planning and Workers and President of the Hong Kong Social Workers interiors design. Mr Liao has participated in award Association. winning commercial, residential, hotel, heritage and community projects and has practiced in North America, He was a member of the Housing Authority for 10 years Europe and Asia. Mr Liao worked with SOM, Moffat and served as the Chairman of the Subsidised Housing Kinoshita (where he was Vice President) and Wong Tung Committee. He was also a member of the Town Planning International (where he was Associate Director - Design) Board, Transport Advisory Committee, Social Welfare prior to establishing Philip Liao and Partners in 2002. Advisory Committee, and Hospital Authority, and a part- time consultant of the Central Policy Unit. Mr Liao regularly lectures at international events/tertiary institutions. He serves as Alumni Interviewer for Cornell Mr Ng is also actively involved in the development of University’s School of Architecture, and has served social welfare and social work in the Mainland. as guest critic and external examiner for the CUHK’s Department of Architecture, and the University of Hong Kong’s Department of Architecture. Mr Almon POON Chin-hung, JP

Mr Liao has served as the architectural expert for the Mr Almon Poon is a Solicitor, High Court of Hong Kong; South China Morning Post and often serves as expert, an Advocate and Solicitor, the Supreme Court of Republic as Juror and as professional advisor for architectural of Singapore; an Arbitrator of Guangzhou Arbitration and planning competitions, including the Tsim Sha Commission; a China-Appointed Attesting Officer; Tsui Piazza Competition, the Hong Kong Institute of Member, Chartered Institute of Arbitration and Accredited Architects’ Annual Awards, and other competitions in Mediator, Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre. He Hong Kong and the PRC. received a Bachelor of Law degree from the University of London and a Master of Law degree in Commercial Law Mr Liao is an honorary trustee of Nanjing University. He from the University of Northumbria. also serves on the Buildings Committee of the Hong Kong Golf Club. Mr Poon is a member of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Advisory Committee, and was formerly a member of the Antiquities Advisory Board, the Transport Dr Isaac NG Ka-chui Advisory Committee, the Town Planning Board and the Administrative Appeals Board, and a part-time member Dr Ng obtained his PhD in Land Economy at the of Central Policy Unit. University of Aberdeen (Scotland) and is currently Lecturer at the City University of Hong Kong. He received extensive training in Public Administration with particular interest in Urban Renewal and Housing Policy. Some of his writings and articles are found in different local and international publications. He had also been engaged in consultancy work and has been the Vice-chairperson of the Education and Training Committee of the Chartered 71 The Honourable James TO Kun-sun currently in private practice. Dr Wong has a MBBS from the University of New South Wales and is a member of The Hon To is a Solicitor, and currently a Legislative the Royal College of Psychiatrists and a Fellow of the Councillor and Chairman of the Panel on Security of Hong Kong Academy of Medicine (Psychiatry). the Legislative Council. He received a Bachelor of Law degree from the University of Hong Kong. Dr Wong has been actively engaging in community affairs since 2000. He is currently an elected Kowloon City The Hon To is a Court Member of the University of Hong District Councillor, member of the Election Committee Kong and was a Member of the Managing Board of the (Medical subsector), member of the Elderly Commission, then Land Development Corporation (1996-2001). He member of the Criminal and Law Enforcement Injuries was Member of the Sham Shui Po District Council and Compensation Board and member of the Town Planning Yau Tsim Mong District Council in 1991-1994 and 1999- Appeal Board. He was formerly a member of the 2007 respectively. Consumer Council (and was Chairman of Research and Testing Committee), the Home Purchase Allowance Mr Peter TO Appeal Board and the Advisory Board on Quality of Water Supply. Mr To has worked in the property development and investment sector for more than 30 years. He was a former President of the Hong Kong Institute of Housing and Mr Douglas YOUNG Chi-chiu has previously served as a member of the Commercial Mr Douglas Young was trained as an Architect in Sheffield Properties Committee of the Hong Kong Housing University and the Architectural Association in the UK. Authority and a member of the Vetting Committee of the Since 1991, Mr Young has worked in Hong Kong on Professional Services Development Assistance Scheme. projects ranging from residential to retail interiors. He is currently an independent non-executive director of Kosmopolito Hotels International Limited. In 1996, Mr Young co-founded GOD which retails contemporary furniture, homeware and lifestyle accessories with a contemporary Chinese twist. Most The Honourable WONG Kwok-kin, BBS of the merchandise is designed in-house by a multi- disciplinary design team led by Mr Young. Wong Kwok-kin is a member of the Legislative Council (Kowloon East), a deputy of the 11th National People’s Mr Young was Member of the Advisory Committee (2001 Congress of the People’s Republic of China for HKSAR, – 2002) and Member of the design task force (2002) of the vice president of Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions, School of Design of Hong Kong Polytechnic University. and convenor of its Logistics and Transport Industry He was Art Advisor to the Hong Kong Arts Development Committee. Mr. Wong is also a member of Commission Council (HKADC) and Examiner of applications for on Strategic Development, non-executive director of HKADC grants in 2003. Presently, he is Director of Hong Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Authority, member Kong Fringe Club, Member of Hong Kong Ambassadors of the Hong Kong Housing Authority and its Subsidised of Design, Member of RTHK Programme Advisory Housing Committee. Panel, Director of Zuni Icosahedron Limited, Member of Business Facilitation Advisory Committee and Member of Mr. Wong was previously the employee representative of the Art Museum Advisory Panel. Labour Advisory Board. He was a member of the Panel on Social Cohesion of Central Policy Unit and a Committee member of the Maritime Services Training Board of Non-Executive Directors (official) Vocational Training Council. Mr AU Choi-kai, JP Director of Buildings

Dr John WONG Yee-him Mr C K Au is a professional building surveyor. He is a Dr Wong Yee Him is a psychiatrist by profession and is Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors, Fellow

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of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors of U.K. Town Planning Institute in the United Kingdom. He also and Member of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers holds the PRC Registered Urban Planner qualification. of USA. After completing his education in the Hong Kong Polytechnic, he joined the Hong Kong Government in 1974. He has held a number of positions in the then Executive Directors Buildings Ordinance Office, Building Development Ir Calvin LAM Che-leung Department, Buildings and Lands Department and Mr Lam was appointed as an Executive Director of URA in Buildings Department. He is now the Director of the November 2008. He is a Registered Professional Engineer Buildings Department. He has over thirty years of (RPE), a Registered Structural (RSE) and Geotechnical experience in building control, especially in the review Engineer (RGE) in Hong Kong. Mr Lam is also a Fellow and formulation of statutory standards in the design and of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers. From 2005 construction of buildings. He was the chief drafter of to 2008, he had served as a council member of the a number of Codes of Practice which are still in force. Association of Consulting Engineers, Hong Kong. These include the Codes of Practice for “Means of Access for Fire Fighting and Rescue 2004”, “Means of Escape Mr Lam completed his engineering training with a top 1996”, “Fire Resisting Construction 1996”, “Overall ranking international engineering consultant and became Thermal Transfer Value in Buildings 1995” and “Building a chartered engineer in 1978. He has worked with Works for Lifts and Escalators 1993”. consultants and government works departments in Hong Kong, UK and Australia.

In his previous employments, Mr Lam oversaw different Mrs Pamela TAN Kam Mi-wah, JP areas of project and operation management including Director of Home Affairs project study, design, execution and implementation, Since 30 June 2003, Mrs Tan has assumed the post of operation and quality assurance, strategic and business Director of Home Affairs. Mrs Tan served in directorate planning. His experience spans across wide areas positions in a number of policy bureaux, resource bureaux including infrastructure construction and new town and frontline departments. She has also served as the developments. Deputy Head of the Central Policy Unit which advised the then Governor, the Chief Secretary and the Financial Secretary on all major issues affecting Hong Kong. Ms Iris TAM Siu-ying, JP Ms Tam was appointed Executive Director of the Urban Renewal Authority in September 2006. She started her Ms Annie TAM Kam-lan, JP town planning career in the government and left the Director of Lands civil service after seven years in 1990. She then set up Ms Tam is the Director of Lands. She is currently a member a planning consultant firm and was actively involved of the Hong Kong Housing Authority, a member of the in both private and public sector planning projects and Supervisory Board of the Hong Kong Housing Society studies in Hong Kong and in Mainland China for sixteen and a member of the Town Planning Board. years. She was the President of the Hong Kong Institute of Planners (1995-97) and served as Chairperson and Member of various Statutory and Advisory Tribunals/ , JP Mr Jimmy LEUNG Cheuk-fai Committees. She is currently a member of the Council for Director of Planning Sustainable Development. Mr Jimmy C F Leung is the Director of the Planning Department of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government. Mr Leung is a Registered Professional Planner in Hong Kong, a Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Planners and a Member of the Royal

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